Humbly Confident Technical Product Manager

Application Deadline: 26 January 2025

Department: Product

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

Compensation: $110,000 - $140,000 / year

Description

We’re YNAB (“why-nab”), a financial education company with a spendfulness app that helps people all over the world spend their money (guilt-free!) on what matters most to them. For over 20 years, YNAB’s proven method has been changing lives—and people can’t stop telling their friends about the difference it’s made. Think: debt paid off, marriages strengthened, goals achieved, stress erased, and sleep finally restored. But don’t just take our word for it—dive into our vibrant communities on Facebook, TikTok, and Reddit (really!) or skim through our glowing app reviews. You’ll quickly see why people rave about YNAB and why we’re so passionate about creating something that truly changes lives for the better.

That’s no small task for our product teams, who navigate incredibly complex problems ranging from the psychology of spending money to the intricacies of Open Banking legislation. We also have an entire product group dedicated solely to improving our infrastructure, and we’ve decided it’s time to hire another technically-minded Product Manager to join that effort. You’re the person we’re looking for if the idea of making YNAB the app and YNAB the workplace more scalable, resilient, and joyful lights a fire under your tuchus. We have three hard requirements for this role—you must:

• Have at least three years of experience as a Product Manager.
• Have a strong technical background. (This can come in many forms; we’d love to hear about yours.)
• Live somewhere between the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) and the Central European Time Zone (UTC+1).

Beyond that, we’re open-minded. We value a diversity of experience and skills at YNAB, and every career path is different. That said, it may help you be successful in this role if you also have:

• Experience in the SaaS industry.
• Experience with things like: complex, data-rich applications; developer-facing products; cross-platform code sharing; legacy system migrations; developer documentation and architectural guidelines; analytics pipelines and data warehouses; security best practices; cross-platform release planning and execution; third party APIs; and infrastructure improvements that raise the tide for all the boats—er, product teams—they touch.
• A deep love for cross-functional product development (we really mean that cross-functional part!).

That’s a super brief intro to what we’re looking for. But first, you need to know if you’ll even like working with us. We’d love to share more about YNAB, and then we’ll get into (many) more details about this role.

YNAB was founded in 2004 and we haven’t taken on any outside funding—we’re established, profitable, and in this for the long haul. We have one overarching requirement when it comes to joining our team: our original Core Value Manifesto has to really click with you. If you’re nodding emphatically while reading it, you’ll probably really like it here, and we can’t wait to hear from you!

We live our Core Values every day at YNAB, and we mean it when we say we are an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that a diversity of backgrounds, abilities, beliefs, and experiences is critical to our success, and we are passionate about creating a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative environment for all employees. All are encouraged to apply as we continue to grow a smart, hard-working, and diverse team that loves working together to build something that matters.

We also work really hard, together, to make working at YNAB an amazing experience, and we’re (humbly) proud to have received many of Fortune's "great place to work" awards over the last several years, including #1 two years in a row! We have a team full of truly exceptional people—the kind you’ll be excited to work with. We’d love to introduce you to a few of them!We’re talking product management here, so you’ll be working with a lot of different people. We can’t even list them all, really. So we’ll start with a few of your closest collaborators:

Hannah is the Group Produc